Professor Carl Minzner shares his expert opinion on Xi Jinping’s problematic ascent to power and what it means for China’s future in a CNN article.
In a report for the Lowy Institute in April, China politics experts Richard McGregor and Jude Blanchette said Xi had built his own power “at the expense of the most important political reform of the last four decades: the regular and peaceful transfer of power.”
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Carl Minzner, a professor in law at Fordham Law School in the United States, said if the criteria for promotion shifted from a focus on competence to an emphasis on personal loyalty to Xi, it could lead to a generation of weak, unprepared leaders.
“In the ’80s or the ’90s there was a degree of ‘Show me what you can do,'” he said. “I worry that what’s happening now is that the game starts to be ‘Show me how loyal you are to me personally.'”
